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The world of security has evolved. We are no longer dealing with the simple threats of viruses that came through the physical formats of many years ago: now we must be alert to malware, adware and any other malicious software that can seek to make money at the cost of our suffering .

Fortunately, antivirus programs have also evolved and offer security measures that know how to keep these threats at bay (more or less). And there is another good news: there are free antivirus that cover most of the needs of the user base. Let's see what options we have for Windows.

Free Antivirus for Windows: What do they have to have to be the best?

A Windows system without antivirus and one with an antivirus installed can be very different, and precisely in that difference is where we have to look for benefits or drawbacks. We can start with the essentials: An antivirus should affect as little as possible the overall performance of the computer.

THERE ARE TESTS TO MEASURE THE EFFICIENCY OF AN ANTIVIRUS AND FOR EFFICIENCY AT THE TIME OF DETECTING THREATS

There are several tests that measure this performance, such as the PC Mark test that starts from a score of 100 that signals the performance of a computer without security software installed and decreases as it measures the "slowing factor" that the Antivirus. The lower the score, the better the antivirus.

In terms of efficiency in detecting threats, we can choose to look at the VirusBulletin VB100 test. Completely independent of any antivirus developer, this test tests those programs to see if they detect certain threats or not.